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Putting Your Poetry in Order: The Mix-Tape Strategy by Katrina Vandenberg

"Record" by Katerina Vandenberg (via Touched by a Monkey)

An Interview With Poet and Fiction Writer Grace Paley by Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler:

I’ll tell you an interesting thing, at least interesting to me. The poetry before I began to write stories, some of it, was very literary. I was a big reader. I was a big imitator, too. I sounded like I was a little bit British in my poetry. The fact that I came from the Bronx was irrelevant. When I began to write stories, I had the luck of having written poetry so that I had the language in my mouth. On the other hand, it was much looser since it was prose. That had a great effect on me when I continued to write poetry. The poetry improved my prose, but the prose was equally good for my poetry. It loosened it up and made me more relevant to myself.

Featured Poet: Laura Sims @ Seven Corners

Parting Words: The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish:

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a

   single word: Home.  (from "I Belong There")